Martin C. Yee, MD Is a lifelong advocate of sports and exercise, and has devoted his career to understanding the effect of regular physical activity upon health and human disease.

After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology, Dr. Yee went on to study the role of exercise in the prevention of disease at the Stanford Center for Preventive Research. He then attended the University of California, Davis, where he completed a Masters of Science in Exercise Science, before receiving his M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. He returned to UC Davis to complete a residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine and received his board certification in Internal Medicine in 1997.

Besides running a busy Internal Medicine practice, Dr. Yee serves as Medical Director for the Apple, Inc. on-site Wellness Program. Additionally, he is the Medical Director of the Center for Health and Weight Management, a medical supervised weight loss program. Dr. Yee is committed to battling the obesity epidemic by promoting health weight loss built on sound, evidenced-based methods that fit practically into peoples’ lives. His hospital affiliation is O’Connor Hospital, where he is a past Chairman of the Department of Medicine. He is an active member of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Sports Medicine.

Dr. Yee understands the benefits of regular exercise and a healthy diet and practices the behaviors he recommends to his patients. He runs and bikes regularly and he and his wife stay busy raising his active family.